Basic Quote by Daniel Everett

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and…

— Daniel Everett

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

“To return to the linguistic analogy, those who are fluent in Scripture are both able and desirous to preach on every nook and cranny…

— Brent A. Strawn

I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims,…

— Win Butler

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

— Ashley Zukerman

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings;…

— Jonathan Swift

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary.…

— Paul Engle

The original language of Christianity is translation.

— Lamin Sanneh

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that…

— Martin Luther

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

— Win Butler

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

— Ishaan Khatter

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky